Weather-strip.



PATENTED JUNE 20, 1905.

A. T. HANSEN.

WEATHER STRIP.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.23,1905.

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ANDREW T. HANSEN, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

WEATHER-STRIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 792,984, dated June 20, 1905.

Application filed March 23, 1905. Serial No. 251,629.

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Be it known that 1, ANDREW T. I-IANsnN, a subject of the King of Denmark, residing at Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in VVeather-Strips; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it a iipertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in weather-strips for doors, especially adapted for automatically closing the crack below the door when the door is closed; and it consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of the lower portion of a door provided with a weather-strip embodying my improvements, and Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same, taken on the plane indicated by the line a a of Fig. 1.

In the embodiment of my invention here shown I provide a plate 1, which is adapted to be placed transversely on a door at the lower side thereof and is provided with a plurality of inclined recesses in which are fixed guards 13, that have inclined slots 2. The said plate is secured to the door by means of screws or other suitable devices 3, which work in the said slots. In suitable recesses 4, with which the plate 1 is provided, are coiled retractile springs, each of which is secured at one end to one of the screws or securing devices 3 and at the opposite end to the plate, as at 6. At that end of the plate 1 which coincides with the free side of the door is a tappet-bolt 7, which is disposed in a longitudinal recess 8, with which the said plate is provided. Said tappet-bolt is longitudinally adjustable in the said recess, so that the outer end of the said bolt may be projected to any desired distance from the corresponding end of the plate. To so adjust the tappet-bolt, the same is provided with a set-screw 9, which operates in a longitudinal slot 10 in a guard 12, with which the plate 1 is provided.

In one side of the doorway is an obliquelydisposed cam-plate 1-1, which is adapted to be engaged by the projecting end of the tappetbolt 7 when the door is closed and to move the plate 1 longitudinally in one direction against the tension of the spring 5 and cause the coacting screws 3 and inclined slots 2 to move the said plate downwardly, so as to close the crack below the door. When the door is opened, the spring 5 serves to elevate the plate as the tappet-bolt 7 leaves the cam-plate 11. The plate 1 may be lined on its inner and lower sides with felt or other material to cause it to close the crack between it and the door and to also tightly close the crack below the door.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In combination with a door or the like, a longitudinally and vertically movable plate thereon having inclined slots and a recess in its inner side communicating with one of said slots, guide devices operating in said slots and projecting from the door, and a spring in the said recess, having one end connected to the said plate and the other end connected to one of the guide deviccs,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have-hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ANDREW T. HANSEN. Witnesses:

Gr. W'. STANLEY, DANIEL HAMILL. 

